Deep within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Virunga National Park is home to some of the continent’s most active volcanoes, ...

Thrill-seekers are flocking to volcano boarding, a sport that involves sliding down active volcanoes on specially designed ...

They're also called composite volcanoes. Mount Rainier in Washington is a famous stratovolcano. Shield volcanoes are big, broad volcanoes made up of oozy lava flows that erupt from multiple vents.

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has consistently predicted that East Africa will be the continent’s fastest-growing ...

It should come as no surprise that when I head to a tropical island, I am more interested in the mountains than the beach.

Patricia] Kīlauea is a little bit different from sort of the stereotypical pointy cone volcano because it's called a shield volcano. Shield volcanoes form when lava is extra runny and can go ...

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

North Korea condemned an ongoing U.S.-South Korea joint military exercise Wednesday, saying another incident like Seoul's ...

Yellowstone and Hawaiʻi. These systems a well known for producing large volumes of magma through time and leaving chains of volcanic features in their wake, although they do so in very different ways.

Using volcanic ash for protection against radiation exposure lessens disposal issues after eruptions and turns the waste material into something useful.